Caspar Rudolph von Jhering was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historical school of law. His ideas were important to the subsequent development of the "jurisprudence of interests" in Germany.
- Occupation
- jurist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Born
- August 22, 1818
- Died
- September 17, 1892
